Example sentences of "[vb past] they [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combination of the sophisticated impresario with his driving ambition and the outspoken Newcastle woman with her earthy language and manner to match , made them appear a strange couple . |
| 2 | Until the Annan Committee knocked BBC and ITV heads together and made them run a joint system of audience measurement , ITV relied mainly on counting the number of sets switched on and the BBC used sample surveys and audience ‘ diaries ’ . |
| 3 | Apparently the cleaner overheard them having a tremendous row . |
| 4 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 5 | One hundred ladies kindly volunteered and eight weeks later I asked them to complete a lengthy questionnaire . |
| 6 | Most will have started yoga after watching it on television or because a friend invited them to join a local group . |
| 7 | Finally Miss Thorne refused to wait any longer and told them to take a short break while she left the hall to make a phone call to Hillbrook Farm . |
| 8 | The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit , not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases . |
| 9 | It seemed they had a mutual acquaintance in ‘ freelance , W. Dennis Suit , president of Overseas Press Services , whom Coleman had met as a ‘ consultant ’ to Pat Robertson 's Christian Broadcasting Network and with whom he had kept in touch , on DIA instructions , because of Suit 's involvement with Oliver North 's ragtag army of conmen , yahoos and armchair mercenaries from |
| 10 | Our screwed up eyes imagined they say a straight line in the bottom of Central Gully . |
| 11 | The companies had sought to merge their fleets on the currently lucrative Dover , Folkestone and Ramsgate routes to France which would have fixed prices at one level and allowed them to operate a single timetable . |
| 12 | Villagers arrived and helped them both to a local hospital — ‘ a filthy hospital with no sanitation — we begged them to use a clean needle . |
| 13 | Graeme Stephens , John Moreland , Chris Bellis , Gordon Headley and Mike Travis played fictitious characters named Chris , Joe , Raimo , Norman and Tom , and , said Graeme , who is managing director of LASMO Colombia ; ‘ Our VIP group showed they had a fine sense of humour by entering into the fun , and no libel suits have surfaced yet ! ’ |
| 14 | When they arrived they attended a mass meeting at the Kufra sportsclub to discuss the issue . |
| 15 | She ordered them to make a tiny boat with sails . |
| 16 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 17 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 18 | Here , some teachers found themselves , often for the first time in their careers , with the opportunity to engage in depth with a small number of individuals , yet were not always able fully to exploit the possibilities because sustained questioning and discussion at that level required them to have a clear framework of the kinds of question they wished to promote and a grasp of the ways a sequence of such questions related to the wider map of the curriculum area in which a particular learning task was located . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the pilot of Beyond Our Ken was listened to by the BBC mandarins , who decided they liked a great deal about it and decreed it would definitely become a radio series . |
| 20 | Fry 's chocolates were made in the old centre of the city but as the business expanded they needed a large space for a modern factory and also easy ways of distributing the goods . |
| 21 | All agreed they had a rough deal as their work often involved great pain . |
| 22 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 23 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 24 | It owed more to the boycott of the elections by the socialist parties and to the Kadets ' skilful use of the indirect electoral system which enabled them to win a disproportionate number of seats . |
| 25 | Less than a third agreed they came by their fees easily , while half felt they made a positive effort to support and understand clients and 59 per cent that they respond very positively to requests for help and advice ( although these two groups of responses should be seen in the light of that ‘ distress purchase ’ attitude , where lawyers are unlikely to be negative when a client suddenly calls up offering business ) . |
| 26 | This is all a far cry from the halcyon days of the mid 80s when investors almost felt they had a vested right to 20 per cent per annum plus returns on a year by year basis . |
| 27 | The National Council for the Aged in the Republic of Ireland reports that in a sample of schoolchildren 62 per cent felt they had a friendly relationship with older people in general . |
| 28 | He said that at the party conference , those who feared they had a weak leader , could take comfort from the belief that there was a strong man waiting in the wings to take over . |
| 29 | Seafarers who landed there thought they saw a great chain of mountains and heard the roaring of lions from them . |
| 30 | BRITISH Rail thought they had a new excuse for late trains yesterday — THIEVES on the line . |